Rants on Cycling and on Life:
Photos of people and bicycles that pass in front of my camera

12.01.2007

multitasking

crisp... crisp and cleartoday was crisp and cleara few degrees below coolbut not entirely cold

the germs are playing musical bodiesright now lisa is the one on the ropesso getting the boys out of the house seemed rightthe weather seemed perfect

the weather was perfect so I prepped the bike with the trailerloaded up the boys, some snacks, and the camera and headed to the hillno lockno agendajust the afternoon son and the patience of the boys

it is interestingthe boys can be quiet in the back of the trailerthat is when they are not fighting!when they are quiet I wonder what they see and what they think

we rolled through mount pleasant towards 16th street taking a detour through Malcolm X Parkit was quiet in the parkI guess the drum circles are only on sundayswe did a loop through not sure what entertains the boy I focused on entertaining myself

we worked our was around downtown trying to put the bike and the bodies where I felt they were safeat some points that was the sidewalk while at others the safe place is on the streetwe looped through the center of dupont circlebut I did not stop so that the boys could get out of the burley trailerI just rolled throughagain looping points of interest

rather than stopping and waiting at red lights I just kept rollingeither I rolled in circles in the basic areamaybe on the sidewalkor I would just head somewhere elsewith no real destination it was find to follow the breeze

we made stops at the white house and the ellipsein the name of Evel Knievel the boys rode helmetlesssthe boys rode standing up in the trailerthe boys rode standing on the bar near the tires... on the outside of the trailer

we were riding on the sidewalk at a slow rate of speed around touriststhe boys were having a ballit was far from the standard NO HELMET NO BIKE fascism that goes on with mebut they are growing boys and do not fit so well side by side in the burley any more

there were photo ops and I begged for the boys to behavethere were many potential photo ops of the boys making faces or holding super hero stancesI do not want photos of funny faces or superhero stancesin between the fun they tried my patience

we took juice and snack breaks at the lincoln memorial and at the capitalthe loop around the carousel was a bad ideathere were demands for a rideand that was not part of my planthe carousel idea was stored for another day

we ended up having a late lunch at a mexican restaurant between union station and lincoln parkthe boys got the tacos that they wantedand I did not complain about my beef fajitapretty fancy lunch for a saturday afternoon

there was a mix of riding the rails, standing in the trailer, and walkingthe boys got to run on city blocks and urban parkswe covered some groundthey behaved really wellexcept when they were not behaving

on the way back we stopped at a friendsthe friend's mom offered to let the boys stayI acceptedthe trailer suffered some damagenot sure if in was due to the weight of my rapidly growing boysor riding on the outsidebut one of the wheels bent inI was suffering some serious dragit took me forever to realize and wellit bent back easily enoughbut then again it drifted back easily enoughagain... trying my patiencemy legs were sore and tiredthe weight of the boys without the added friction was intense

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